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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
REALITY occurs
13 times
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1.
... reality.
12&12 p.122,
Step Twelve
2.
... reality and
the beauty of the forest ...
BB p.50,
We Agnostics
We
missed the
reality and
the
beauty of the
forest
because we were
diverted by the
ugliness
of some of
its trees.
3.
... reality at
all.
BB p.48,
We Agnostics
4.
... Reality deep
down within us.
BB p.55,
We Agnostics
5.
... reality intensely
practical.
12&12 p.101,
Step Eleven
6.
... reality, of
Alcoholics Anonymous.
12&12 p.109,
Step Twelve
7.
... reality, or
were outright mental defectives.
BB xxvi(xxiv),
The Doctor's Opinion
It did not
satisfy us to be
told that we could not
control
our
drinking just because we were
maladjusted to
life, that
we were in
full flight from
reality, or were
outright
mental defectives.
8.
... reality out
of bottles.
12&12 p.100,
Step Eleven
9.
... reality that
was the beginning of my ...
BB p.8,
Bill's Story
In
reality that was the
beginning of my
last debauch.
10.
... reality, the
nourishment of His strength, and ...
12&12 p.97,
Step Eleven
We all
need the
light of
God's
reality, the
nourishment of His
strength, and the
atmosphere of His
grace.
11.
... Reality --
their loving and All Powerful Creator.
BB p.161,
A Vision For You
They had
visioned the
Great Reality -- their
loving and All
Powerful Creator.
12.
... reality we
have already passed up many ...
12&12 p.85,
Step Nine
13.
... reality which
is God's kingdom.
12&12 p.98,
Step Eleven
Now and then we may be
granted a
glimpse of that
ultimate reality which is
God's
kingdom.
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